CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 14, 1990
The city of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit Monday against Bishop H.H. Brookins that seeks to recover $48,259 in city rent subsidies that were paid to a poverty program run by the bishop. The Superior Court suit alleges that Brookins, a leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and longtime mentor to Mayor Tom Bradley, concealed his ownership of the South Los Angeles building from the city in the mid-1980s to qualify for the rent funds.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 18, 1990
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted to file a lawsuit to recover $48,250 in government rent subsidies that Bishop H. H. Brookins improperly collected from the city. The money paid to Brookins is owed because the bishop concealed his ownership in a Southwest Los Angeles building to receive $339,000 in federal loans to renovate the building, a city investigation found. The council voted 9 to 4 to authorize the city attorney's office to file suit.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 10, 1990
African Methodist Episcopal Church leaders and Councilman Nate Holden on Friday defended a controversial education and job training program that operates out of a building owned by Bishop H.H. Brookins. "This is a gimmick," Holden said of a city investigation that concluded Brookins had "obscured" from the city his ownership of a Southwest Los Angeles office complex that housed the program. The program was stripped of its $87,142-a-year city contract last month.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 19, 1990
Delaying a decision on whether to sue Bishop H.H. Brookins, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday directed the city attorney's office to negotiate with Brookins in a dispute over $48,000 he may owe the city. The council gave the order during a closed session and continued the matter until May 11, Councilman Robert Farrell said. At issue is $48,000 in Community Development Department funds paid to a Brookins organization to rent a building that Brookins owned.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 5, 1990
After emerging from a closed session Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council referred allegations of conflict-of-interest involving Bishop H.H. Brookins to the city attorney's office for further review. The council had been scheduled to decide whether to sue to recover about $48,000 the city paid for rent in a Southwest Los Angeles office complex owned by Brookins that housed a city-funded poverty program run by the bishop.
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March 2, 1990 | GLENN F. BUNTING, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The district attorney's office erred when it dropped a criminal investigation of Bishop H.H. Brookins on grounds that the three-year statute of limitations for fraud and embezzlement had elapsed, city officials said Thursday. Deputy City Atty. Frank Orozco said the statute did not expire until 1989, well after allegations that Brookins disguised his ownership of an office complex to obtain a $336,000 government renovation loan were referred to the district attorney's office.